Northfield Downtown Development Corporation

It’s the NDDC’s annual thank-you to our partners…and celebration of Downtown Northfield.  Doors open at 7 p.m., at the Grand Event Center.  There’ll be live music, free appetizers, a cash bar, a low-key raffle, and a whole bunch of your friends and neighbors.  So come on down(town) and celebrate with us, this Friday night.

Friday, February 17th: NDDC Downtown Celebration, 7:00 – 11:00 p.m., Grand Event Center; 6th Annual Northfield Winter Stomp, 7:00 – 10:30 p.m., National Guard Armory; The Melvilles, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., Hogan Brothers; Arsenic and Old Lace, 7:30p.m., Northfield Arts Guild Theater; Dan Israel, 8:00 to 10:00 p.m., Contented Cow; Matthew Griswold, 8:00 to 11:30 p.m., Tavern Lounge; Martin Devaney, 11:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., Contented Cow; and Karaoke, 9:00 p.m., Rueb’N'Stein. Read the rest of this entry »

The Big Wu is celebrating 20 years of making music…in downtown Northfield.  The Big Wu was founded in 1992 by St. Olaf College students and played their first gig on 2/14/1992 in the Lion’s Pause in the basement of the old Ytterboe hall.  The Big Wu continued to play every three weeks or so at the Upstairs Reub.  They return to the Rueb this Saturday night.  There’s even more return of local talent on Saturday night, Meredith Fierke and the McKinstrys at at the NAG and The Last Known Whereabouts are at the Cow. Read the rest of this entry »

Winter may be on its way out…but we’ve still got a number of weeks of days with late sunrises and early sunsets.  Shake off the gloom…and shake your tailfeathers…to the music of such American greats as Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “the Big Bopper” Richardson, provided by local greats Terry Van DeWalker, Scott Skaja, Allison Rae, Jacob Hendrickson, C. J. Alt, Ross Willits, and Ray Barnard…Friday night at the Cow.

Friday, February 3rd: New Moon Trio, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Contented Cow; One Act Plays, 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., Northfield High School Auditorium; Winter (’50s) Dance Party, 7:00 p.m., Contented Cow; Ben Aaron, 8:00 to 11:30 p.m., Tavern Lounge; and Karaoke, 9:00 p.m., Rueb’N'Stein. Read the rest of this entry »

The City of Northfield and Streetscape Task Force will host a Public Open House and Input Gathering Session on Monday, January 30th, 5 to 7 p.m., in the Riverview Conference Room of the Archer House, 212 Division Street.

This is the second in a series of three open house events for the public. The first session focused on the seven Gateway Corridor Areas identified for study. These Areas were the western portion of Highway 19, the eastern portion of Highway 19, the southern portion of Highway 3, the northern portion of Highway 3, Highway 246 at the south of town, Highway 23 at the northwest of town, and County Road 78 at the west of town. Initial concept drawings can be viewed and downloaded from the City’s website:

At this session, the project’s design team will present some of their initial ideas. These ideas include landscape plantings, streetscape treatments, pedestrian walkways, trail links, and bike routes and lanes throughout the project areas as well as at major intersections along the corridors. Read the rest of this entry »

Given my interest in Country Rock, Outlaw Country, and Alt-Country Music, I was thinking this might be a ’70s Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys tribute band.  But no, think ’60s British Invasion, The Tornadoes, The Beatles, The Troggs…and The Kinks, tribute band.  They’re “flying in” from the Twin Cities to play at the Contented Cow on Friday night.

Thursday, January 26th: Midnight Collision, 8:00 to 11:00, Contented Cow; Lyric Theater: Transformations, 8:00 p.m., Urness Recital Hall on the St. Olaf College campus; Marv Gohman, 8:30 to 11:00 p.m., Tavern Lounge; and Prom Queef, 11:59 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., Contented Cow. Read the rest of this entry »